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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 3896971c..07a999a9 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -636,6 +636,10 @@ to already have a ticket-granting ticket. You may pass a username different from your principal name using the standard \fB--user\fR command or by the \fI.fetchmailrc\fR option \fBuser\fR. .PP +If your IMAP daemon returns the PREAUTH response in its greeting line, +fetchmail will notice this and skip the normal authentication step. +This could be useful, e.g. if you start imapd explicitly using ssh. +.PP If you are using POP3, and the server issues a one-time-password challenge conforming to RFC1938, \fIfetchmail\fR will use your password as a pass phrase to generate the required response. This |